They say they were born in London and Pakistani, have no real age and even less passport.
This Wednesday, the police officers of the 1st DPJ (judicial police district), to whom the Paris prosecutor's office entrusted the investigation, were trying to find out more and establish their true identity.
Seven people are in custody in their premises: four women and three men, including two minors.
For facts that are still quite obscure and above all very disturbing.
The case, revealed by RTL, dates back to Monday evening, shortly before 7 p.m.
Two black sedans arrive roaring a few meters from the Israeli embassy, 200 m from the Champs-Elysées (8th arrondissement).
The street, considered sensitive because of the diplomatic building, is however closed on both sides and guarded 24 hours a day by the police.
One of the most watched places in Paris.
"Hit and run" logo plates
The two vehicles, occupied by seven people, charge deliberately on the gendarme on duty at the end of the street.
The soldier, who manages to avoid them in extremis, is not injured.
The two drivers, foot to the floor, disappear into Paris.
The gendarme files a complaint for attempted intentional homicide
Immediately, extensive research is launched.
Very quickly, the video images informed the investigators.
The license plates of both vehicles are fake but above all they bear the initials "Hit and run" ("Hit and run away!", In English), formed with the letters and numbers "H17NRN".
This movement of willful violence, which is said to be rampant in the United States, consists of targeting members of the police, hitting them with a car and then fleeing.
Originally, it was more about “classic” hit and run, after road accidents.
“In France, we have hit and run cases, confides a gendarmerie source, but it would be more in the case of refusals to comply.
"A police commissioner details:" A motorist is checked.
He is drunk.
Or he has no papers.
Or it is known to our services ... Very quickly, things degenerate.
And it happens that, on purpose, he tries to hit a member of the police with his car.
“In recent weeks, in France, several road checks have degenerated in this way.
Monday, the motive of these drivers claimed targeting the Israeli embassy, according to judicial police sources, "would not be terrorist", but "has all the characteristics of a hit and run, and especially a attempted homicide on PDAP (
Editor's note: person holding public authority
).
It is a free and deliberate act.
The car arrives directly at its target, a symbol, and tries to hit it.
"
A former head of the judicial police has another explanation.
“The rare attacks by police or gendarmes in cars are often aimed at recovering their weapons.
There was this case of police officers on duty attacked in the 1990s on rue du Château-des-Rentiers, in front of the police building of the Economic and Financial Affairs Department.
One of them had been seriously injured.
"
One of the vehicles was seen "near the Elysee Palace"
For this specialist: “The case of the Israeli embassy on Monday remains curious.
The street is blocked on both sides and well guarded, and avenue Matignon, perpendicular, is one-way.
Not easy to escape and not easy as a target!
"
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Just after the embassy's hit and run, the report of sedans, a BMW and a Mercedes, was broadcast on all police waves.
Tuesday evening, the Mercedes is spotted by officials of the DOPC (Directorate of Public Order and Traffic) in the center of Paris.
“The car had been seen near the Elysee Palace,” said a police source.
The police succeed in bringing the car to a stop and arresting its occupants.
The second car is parked just behind.
After patiently waiting for their return, they also call out to its occupants.
Both vehicles were seized.
The investigation is continuing.